Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

However, it is precisely because they do not have to bear the responsibility of the "frontal main force" that they do not need to follow the main fleet, but can stay far away from the opponent's range, constantly using their less powerful but disgusting weapons. Low-velocity bullets to harass enemy ships - if you use a naval battle game to describe them, their ecological niche is probably 22 guns with a range of 155km and unlimited water reconnaissance?

Although the tonnage is relatively light and the survivability is average, but because of the long distance, it is difficult for the opponent to take care of this group of long-distance lottery-like flies. The main fleet within is the target they should focus on.

And if the opponent is really impatient, that would be even better—for the same laser shot, the farther it hits, the lower its power will be. One shot can pierce 500mm homogeneous steel at the best combat distance. Lasers may not even be able to penetrate 13000mm at the limit range of 100 kilometers.

In the boundless space, distance and speed are the best shields.

Of course, if it’s just like this, it’s fine, and it won’t attract too much attention from Hong. After all, harassment is useful, but if you really want to resist the front, you have to be a cat with both firepower and survival.

But the beluga can do much more than that.

They can throw feces at a long distance when they enter, and use barrage to defend against air when they retreat. They can attack fortresses and penetrate warships. No matter how far the distance is, as long as they are selected in the lottery, the power will be exactly the same as the shells when they were just out of the chamber.

Moreover, they also have an advantage that makes Hong feel a little surprised - because they have been wandering around the edge of the battlefield, even in the main fleets of both sides, they have been fighting to the end, and they can't wait to use themselves as a heat bank to dissipate heat. At that time, it was still shiny as new, almost intact, and could maintain almost the same firepower as when it first started fighting.

This introduces additional variables to the endgame phase.

It's not that Hong hadn't thought of these advantages before, otherwise she wouldn't have chosen to build them, but the facts have proved that the role of these little guys is much greater than Hong expected.

In this regard, Hong has planned to increase the proportion of the Beluga-class in the new plan, from the previous 7 single-pushers to 1 Beluga-class, to the ratio of every 3 single-pushers to 1 Beluga-class .

Reality is not a game, there is no limit of 12 ships on one side, and there is no need to worry that a ship that can only throw shit remotely will occupy the original ship space-of course, strictly speaking, it will still be possible, after all, Hong's productivity is limited , a little more tilt on the beluga-class will reduce the production capacity of the pusher-class and queen-bee-class.

But as long as it is controlled properly, the combat effectiveness of a mixed fleet of the same tonnage with the right proportion will be stronger than any fleet composed of a single type of ship.

"The enemy's missile distance is 5000 kilometers!"

Red loudly reported.

Finally, after a long flight of more than ten minutes, the critical dividing line.

Arrived.

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PS: March, rush!

Volume 160: War Against Extinction: Chapter [-] [-] Light and Heat

For the single-push human class, there are three key nodes in the space anti-missile mission.

The first node, which is also the stage they have already passed, is the optimal combat distance of 7000 kilometers. After passing this node, the accuracy of the main gun will tend to be stable, and the diameter of the light spot will basically only decrease in proportion to the distance. Smallness is an important stage for the main gun to exert its combat effectiveness on paper.

The second node is the range of the 2500-kilometer ultraviolet phased array laser secondary gun. This is easy to understand. It can be compared to short-range air defense and terminal air defense in naval battles. There is nothing to say.

The above two stages are all nodes that are beneficial to the defender. Every time you pass one, you can significantly increase your own interception firepower by a stage.

However, luck will not favor the defender forever, and the last remaining node happens to be a node that is very unfavorable to the defender—that is, the shooting range limit.

To put it simply, after entering this range, the firing range of a warship cannot cover the entire group of incoming missiles. In other words, after entering this area, the fleet's anti-aircraft firepower is no longer a whole, but It will be divided into small groups one by one, and it is difficult to support each other.

This is an inherent disadvantage of the axis gunship.

Compared with electromagnetic guns and particle cannons that can only be aimed through the maneuvering of the hull, the free electron laser is still better. With the characteristics that the laser can separate the resonator and the accelerator, through multiple light outlets and the lens that can be fine-tuned, it can Expand a certain shooting range without losing too much power.

Although the shooting circle is not a complete cone, but a pseudo-shooting circle composed of many small cones, there will inevitably be a lot of gaps in the middle, and there is a disadvantage that if one light outlet is damaged, there will be less shooting circles, but compared to Compared with electromagnetic guns and particle cannons that can only attack along the extension line of the barrel, the flexibility has been improved to a certain extent.

However, this shooting range has a limit. For the single pusher class, when the standard width formation is deployed, the limit is 5000 kilometers-once entering this distance, the single pusher cannot lose too much Supported each other under the premise of power.

The distance between the range limit of 5000 kilometers and the range of the secondary guns of 2500 kilometers is the time when the anti-aircraft firepower is weakest-it is also within this distance that the attacker will use the strength of the anti-aircraft firepower in different areas of the opponent And the loss rate to determine the area where the missile will finally focus on attacking.

According to Hong's calculations, this area is very likely to appear in the direction of the human fleet.

"The loss rate of our missiles is slightly higher than expected. It seems that there is something hidden on the other side."

While controlling the cat alliance fleet to eliminate the incoming missiles with the highest possible efficiency, Hong said to his officer Jeffrey.

After their decisive battle missile groups entered the range of each other, both sides stopped the exchange of fire between the battleships in a tacit understanding, and instead poured all their firepower on the incoming missile groups.

For a moment, there was a brief calm on the battlefield, and no warship had been attacked in the past ten minutes—of course, except for the barrage fired by the Ouhu-class, after all, with their In terms of the speed of the shells, the shells on the opposite side are all fired more than ten or twenty minutes ago.

"The forward interception nuclear bomb has entered the predetermined orbit and is expected to meet the enemy missile in 30 seconds."

After confirming that the enemy has indeed begun to turn in the direction of the human fleet, the first batch of intercepting nuclear bombs is on the road.

As missiles that are specially responsible for intercepting enemy missiles at close range, they use cheap solid-fuel rockets. Compared with nuclear thermal rockets or liquid fuel rockets, its specific impulse is very low, only a little over two points per kilometer. Second.

Therefore, even if the dry-to-mass ratio can be much higher than that of offensive missiles because there is no need to worry about laser interception, its total DV is only a poor 7km/s.

But a very obvious advantage of solid-fuel rockets is that their response speed is very fast-high thrust, high acceleration, and fast orbit change speed, so that they can complete acceleration in a very short time and distance.

In the terminal air defense that is equivalent to a race against death, this is undoubtedly an extremely important trait.

"Humans have been notified to make them ready." While mobilizing the interceptor missiles, Hong did not forget to report the latest news to the cat allied officers on the side, "The enemy's missiles are still 5000 kilometers away from us. 3300 kilometers, it can basically be confirmed that its main attack direction is on the side of the human fleet."

"As expected."

In this regard, they are not surprised - even if the human anti-aircraft firepower is the same as theirs, unit 01 will most likely choose the human fleet as the main attack direction.

After all, the average distance between the starting position of enemy missiles and the human fleet is more than 1000 kilometers closer than their average distance, unless the near-fire capability of the human fleet is so strong that Unit 01 would rather let the missiles take a high orbit and go around the long distance to avoid it. Otherwise, the opponent will definitely choose to attack humans.

Of course, even though the opponent chooses to attack humans, it doesn't mean that they don't have missiles to divert them—in order to prevent them from turning their hulls to cover the firing range, Unit 01 still allocated certain missiles in their direction.

Until the moment the dust settles, we must not take it lightly.

"Red, which main attack direction did our missile choose?"

Looking at the 90-second countdown to the missile hit on the right side of the screen, the deputy commander asked.

It is obviously the most critical decisive stage of the entire battle, but on the contrary, these officers are already in a state of complete idleness - not because they are bad, but at this time, organic creatures can no longer intervene in the command of the fleet fought.

At the stage of the endgame when the missile groups are fighting each other, there is no overall thinking, strategic decision-making, tactical decision-making, or intelligence analysis.

At this moment, the only thing that can affect the outcome is the purest firepower intensity, as well as millisecond-level firepower network planning and response—and this is something that only AI can do.

"Our main attack direction is the enemy's two fleets distributed on the left flank of its fleet, accounting for about 40% of the opponent's remaining fleet."

Along with Hong's words, the screen in front of the deputy commander also highlighted the two fleets she mentioned.

"Understood." The deputy commander nodded slightly, both sides made very routine choices, the kind that can be understood after a little thought.

From the perspective of orbital mechanics, the current movement trend of the two fleets is that the extinct units are in front and the cat alliance is behind. At the same time, the extinct units are in high orbit and the cat alliance is in low orbit. It belongs to a more classic orbital chase model. .

In this model, the Cat League as the pursuer has a certain advantage, because their missiles only need to directly climb the orbital height with full thrust, instead of having to fall off the low orbit and then climb to the high orbit like the extermination units of the pursued side , the path at the same distance is shorter - in this way, the trajectory of the missile will naturally meet the enemy's forward fleet in a relatively high orbit.

As far as the pursued party is concerned, although it is at a disadvantage in the pursuit model, because unit 01 occupies a high orbit through the transition, the missile it launches will obtain a certain amount of energy from the gravitational potential energy when it descends orbit, thereby making up for The energy loss caused by the part of the pursued party "falling off the low orbit and then climbing the high orbit".

In order to increase the energy obtained as much as possible, what it has to do is to increase the ability to obtain from the descending orbit, and at the same time minimize the energy loss in the part of "climbing the high orbit". Therefore, the best way is naturally to choose to be in a relatively low orbit while The human fleet is closer.

"There are 120 seconds left before the first wave of missiles reaches the enemy fleet."

Under the blessing of the pursuit side's orbital advantage, combined with the relatively more advanced technology of the Cat League, the Cat League missile reached the 15-kilometer target 2500 seconds earlier than the opponent on the premise that the launch position was farther and the enemy's range entered later. key nodes.

After completing the final orbital planning, Red gave the order to jettison the propulsion stage.

"Oh!"

Accompanied by a series of tiny flashes of blasting bolts, the nuclear thermal engine that has exhausted its liquid hydrogen completely ended its mission as a propulsion section, and fell off the warhead.

From this moment on, the missile has completely entered the unchangeable final sprint stage.

Even Hong couldn't prevent the detonation of the nuclear bomb, because it could no longer and could no longer receive any remote commands from the outside world.

To prevent it from exploding, there are only two ways to go, either, send an agent code-named Bond in a suit and sunglasses to climb onto the ultra-high-speed missile flying at more than Mach 60 with bare hands, and manually terminate it through a mechanical device at a critical moment.

If there is no such a strong macho agent, then there is only the only and the most stupid way - to pass through its thick meter-level armor that is specialized in laser defense.

wreck it.

"The trajectory of the terminal flight segment is normal, the reaction control system is normal, and the trajectory is fine-tuned."

Of course, Hong can still obtain the current state of the warhead by returning the data-this allows her to more accurately study and judge the current battlefield situation, and the returned data itself will not cause any interference to the warhead. possible.

It's just that she can no longer give any orders, whether it is detonating, changing orbits, or locking, all will not work.

This is for the sake of absolute safety. After all, the fleet has many means to ensure that its communication with the red body will not be hacked, whether it is through highly directional, almost uninterrupted laser communication, or it is theoretically impossible to be eavesdropped by a third party. Quantum key distribution can reduce the possibility of being hacked to almost zero.

But missiles are different. Red can’t support so many terminals at the same time for high-frequency parallel communication. In order to avoid interference, hacking, and camouflage commands when the big killer flies to the enemy’s face, it is very likely to reverse the outcome. In unexpected situations, it is acceptable to sacrifice a little flexibility.

"The spin generator has been activated, and the speed increase is stable."

After confirming that it was completely aimed at the target warship's expected position after 100 seconds, the warhead turned.

The high-speed rotating terminal flight section can effectively avoid the fixed-point strike of the laser, and evenly distribute the energy on a line instead of a point-it is nothing new, and ancient ballistic missiles often have this configuration.

But ancient does not always mean backwardness, on the contrary, in many cases, it often means "durable".

The free electron laser flashes once every few seconds, releasing energy equivalent to hundreds of kilograms of TNT on those little guys who are trying to kill it; Break through the meter-thick armor on the warhead, and twist everything behind it into broken parts.

The near-anti-aircraft lasers on the surface of the hull are attacking crazily at a high-intensity frequency that does not consider the service life at all. The high-energy lasers in the near-ultraviolet and even extreme ultraviolet bands continuously hit the armor of the warhead, trying to cut off the nuclear detonation hidden under the armor. device.

In addition to these three, the flashes of near-anti-nuclear bombs have never stopped. They are shining one after another in front of the enemy's front, whether it belongs to the right side of the feint attack direction or the left side of the main attack direction. The rays of light are shining, destroying everything around with its violent energy.

Different from other types of interception, nuclear interception has a price.

Although the interception of nuclear bombs has successfully avoided the possibility of the enemy's nuclear bombs directly hitting the warship and causing a fatal attack, the interception of nuclear bombs itself will also cause a certain degree of damage to the warship—just like those long-distance missiles that were specially used to destroy the surface in a large area in the early days of the battle. Like nuclear bombs, the powerful light, heat radiation, and hot plasma released by these nuclear explosions will all cause damage to the hull itself.

But it has no choice.

They also have no choice.

This kind of scene didn’t just happen to the extermination unit, it also happened to the human/cat alliance fleet—both sides were desperately intercepting the enemy’s nuclear bombs, doing everything possible to get out of this last and last Survive a strong wave of missile attacks.

The more you stop, the more warships survive, and the greater the possibility of victory in the final battle.

It's just that even such a powerful quadruple interception net cannot intercept everything in the face of such a high-density missile attack.

Eight seconds after the theoretical arrival time of the first batch of missiles, the first nuclear warhead that actually broke through the interception net appeared.

Under the cover of three near-explosion nuclear bombs that were detonated at distances of 400 kilometers, 180 kilometers, and 80 kilometers from the enemy ship, this nuclear warhead quietly drilled through the holes in the enemy's near-defense nuclear bomb net that these three nuclear bombs swept out. Come in.

Successive nuclear explosions have completely destroyed the sighting equipment on this side of the battleship, and the spare new equipment has not had time to protrude from under the hull. Therefore, although the battleship still has a working laser turret , but because there is no sighting, the detection and locking cannot be completed, thus forming a short-term near-defense vacuum on this side.

This vacuum period is only a few seconds. If it is normal, a few seconds is not important at all. It takes only a few minutes of drinking water. The new sighting equipment can replace the damaged equipment and continue to work.

But at this time, the vacuum period of a few seconds is the boundary between life and death.

When the new sighting equipment came out, all it saw was a black warhead that was close at hand and could almost touch the armor plate of the battleship.

"Whoo~"

Almost at the same time, Hong, who was far away on Katus, stuck out his tongue and stretched out his hand in a gesture of a gun.

"boom!"

The moment the sound fell, endless light and heat burst out from the small black warhead, tearing the slender warship in half almost instantly.

The first battleship destroyed by the decisive missile group appeared.

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PS: The war is coming to an end, but the winner is already doomed.

PS2: This battle has been fought for too long. There should be no large-scale military conflicts involving the new red in a short period of time. It is time to change the taste and transform the "Galaxy Cat Story" and "Me and Me" for a period of time. Zai Zai Posted Daily".

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 160 Three Mysterious Decoders, Here Comes

This is a start.

Also a signal.

After the appearance of the first battleship whose air defense was overwhelmed by the saturation attack, the loss rate of the enemy's left wing fleet began to soar like dominoes being toppled.

More and more nuclear bombs passed through the already overwhelmed anti-aircraft firepower, lighting up the dark starry sky with their shining light-for a thin-skinned space battleship, a nuclear bomb detonated at a distance of 0 is almost impossible. It is impossible to defend, whether it is the bow, side, or stern, any part of the nuclear bomb means that the entire battleship has lost its combat capability.

It's just the difference between being completely gasified at one end and being directly blown into several sections.

After all, the nuclear bomb is the most powerful weapon that their technological civilization at this stage can master.

Because it represents the energy of atomic fusion, which is the truest embodiment of the mass-energy equation.

Theoretically, only when the flagship "White Reaper" of the Cat League has a suitable angle and the enemy's nuclear bomb yield is not large, can it barely resist the next nuclear bomb without completely losing its combat capability.

But this is the damage resistance and defense ability brought by the mass of 70 tons. For ordinary warships, whether it is the 12-ton class of the Cat League, the 12.5-ton class of the Extinction Unit, or even the 15-ton class of humans Class warships, none of them have such a strong ability to resist damage.

Therefore, it can be said that every hit nuclear bomb represents a completely destroyed warship.

And this dazzling light that seemed to be connected together represented hundreds of warships that were executed by nuclear bombs.

"The strike has been completed and the operational effects are being evaluated."

After the enemy's last nuclear bomb was intercepted, Hong began to quickly model and calculate his own battle damage—the human side suffered heavy losses, and there were more than 90 warships directly destroyed by nuclear bombs alone, accounting for all of them. Nearly 70% of the remaining warships were not destroyed by nuclear bombs, and all of them were wounded. The working fluid bottomed out, and the situation was very pessimistic.

Although the cat alliance is not the main attack direction, but the other side has too many missiles, so many that there are nearly [-] missiles even in the feint attack direction.